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Do you remember what we paid? |
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Tuesday, 22 April 2008 06:57 |
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Do you remember what it cost our parents for us to attend Erskine? Read on... |
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Tuesday, 22 April 2008 00:00 |
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The following is an article from the Wellington Evening Post of 22 December 1983 - Erskine College at Island Bay will never be the same after today - its faceflift has begun. The most spectacular part of the facelift was to shift an entire two-storey block from behind the school to a new location 200m away. |
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St. Madeleine Sophie Barat - 1779-1865 |
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Tuesday, 22 April 2008 00:00 |
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St. Madeleine Sophie Barat, foundress of the Society of the Sacred Heart, was born in Joigny, France on December 12, 1779. She was a frail, intensely thoughtful child, who knew with ruthless logic, before she could talk, that God alone mattered. |
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Tuesday, 22 April 2008 00:00 |
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Janet Erskine Stuart was born November 11, 1857, in Cottesmore, Putland, England. Cottesmore, with its thatched cottage roofs, leafy lanes, flowered hedges, woods, and running brooks, was a child's paradise. Janet learned to love nature as God's unspoiled handiwork, and first became aware of God through observing the countryside. |
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News from Caroline Mcarthur |
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Tuesday, 22 April 2008 00:00 |
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Dear friends, I am living in Brussels and training for a cycling fundraiser in India. You can visit my fundraising page. This should be an easy, efficient and totally secure way for you to sponsor me online. All your help is greatly appreciated and will make a difference in this challenge to address major health issues involving women and babies. |
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Who locked themselves in the Community? |
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Tuesday, 22 April 2008 00:00 |
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It was recently reported that two former pupils who decided to go out to Island Bay and have a look around the old Erskine College, went into the "Community" from the old Study Room to have a good snoop, the door slammed behind them, and woops, they were locked in. |
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